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Apple Launches iPhone 4S, iOS 5 & iCloud — iPhone 4S Features Dual-Core A5 Chip, All New Camera, Full 1080p HD Video Recording & Introduces Siri — Apple® today announced iPhone® 4S, the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple's dual-core A5 chip …
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Peter Cohen / The Loop:
iPhone 4S, with dual-core processor and Siri, coming Oct. 14 — Apple on Tuesday introduced the iPhone 4S. The new phone comes out on Friday, October 14, 2011 and will be available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models. Carrier-subsidized prices in the US are $199, $299 and $399 respectively.
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MacNN, @claytonmorris, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, Ars Technica, PetaPixel and TiPb
CNET News:
Live demo: Siri on Sprint iPhone 4S — An Apple employee shows off the various functions of Siri, a new intelligent voice-recognition app that turns the iPhone 4S into a personal assistant.
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Apple, Engadget, TechCrunch, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld, 9to5Mac and MacStories
Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:
Siri Personal Assistant Only Works on the iPhone 4S — Siri is crazy. Being able to talk to your phone like a real person is the stuff of Sci-Fi. Here's the catch: You won't be able to use it unless you've got an iPhone 4S. — Siri's built into a bunch of apps already …
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Bits, mocoNews, TUAW, PC World, CNET News, Macworld, @markmilian, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Computerworld, Inquirer, Delimiter, Kotaku, MacStories and GottaBeMobile
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Apple refreshes iPod touch: Now in white, 8GB model dropped to $199, available October 12 — Apple's marketing honcho Phil Schiller took it upon himself to unveil a refreshed iPod touch lineup, which now includes both black and white models (remember, we called both), plus a new breakthrough price of just $199.
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CNET News, MacRumors, BetaNews, AllThingsD, Engadget, AppleInsider, Macworld, eWeek, SiliconANGLE, PC World, This is my next, Engadget, BGR, Computerworld, VentureBeat, GottaBeMobile, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, TUAW, Between the Lines Blog, Gizmodo, Technologizer, 9to5Mac, VatorNews, Shiny Objects, This is my next, LAPTOP Magazine, AppleInsider, Mobile Technology News and TechCrunch
Peter Cohen / The Loop:
Apple posts 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote stream — Apple posts 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote stream — By now you've probably read coverage of Tuesday's “Let's Talk iPhone” event at Apple's Cupertino campus, where Tim Cook and company took the wraps off of the new iPhone 4S …
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Computerworld, Fortune, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, FreakGeeks, Techie Buzz, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories, RazorianFly, everythingiCafe and Gizmodo
Dieter Bohn / This is my next:
Sprint iPhone 4S announced, available October 14th — As expected, Apple has added one more major US carrier to its iPhone lineup: Sprint. Available on October 14th, the Sprint iPhone 4S marks the beginning of the company's “multibillion dollar gamble” to sell at least eight million iPhones …
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GottaBeMobile and Android and Me
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple iOS 5 hitting on October 12th — Apple's iOS 5 will be released on October 12th for all iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPad 2, and last two iPod touch generation customers. We're expecting the Gold Master to be released for developers later today. Apple's free iOS 5 software update brings …
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9to5Mac, Computerworld, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, This is my next, Technologizer, Technologizer, Computerworld, Gizmodo, @mhelft, LAPTOP Magazine, TUAW and The Next Web
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
New AppleCare+ extended warranty covers accidents
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TUAW, Gizmodo, Macgasm and iDownloadBlog.com
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
If you're disappointed by the iPhone 4S, you're nuts — Cue the whiners. Apple didn't announce an iPhone 5 today, just an updated version of the iPhone 4, called the iPhone 4S. Apple stock is down a bit in a flat market. Many are claiming to be disappointed. But here's the thing: You shouldn't be.
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AllThingsD, Digits, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, 1001 Noisy Cameras, CNET News, VentureBeat, Technology Review and @mattrosoff
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Where Was Facebook At The Apple Event Today? Not There. Stay Tuned. — One of the things noticeably absent from Apple's iPhone event today was Facebook. After all, other outlets were reporting that they would for sure be a part of the event. Late last week, we reported hearing that could be the case …
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Computerworld, The Loop, Truthful Tech, AllThingsD, TUAW, App Advice, PaulColligan.com and Gizmodo
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The iPhone 5 Failboard: How Everyone Got It Wrong — A great many Apple fans are hot and bothered that no iPhone 5 emerged today to fill the void in their souls. But you know who should really feel dejected? All the tech bloggers who wasted time typing bold proclamations about new features, designs and phones that never came.
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Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, Business Insider, The Loop, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, Gadget Lab and Helloform, more at Mediagazer »
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Apple's “Find My Friends” Location Feature Is More Like Glympse Than Foursquare
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TechCrunch, CNET News, The Register, ReadWriteWeb and GigaOM
Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:
iPhone 4S hands-on impressions
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LAPTOP Magazine and LAPTOP Magazine
John Brownlee / Cult of Android:
Leaked Sales Numbers Suggest Amazon Kindle Fire On Track To Outsell iPad [Exclusive] — Six weeks before it officially goes on sale, Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire is shaping up to be the biggest tablet launch ever... and Cult of Android has the numbers to prove it.
Michael Degusta / the understatement:
Google's Management Doesn't Use Google+ — Management caring deeply about their company's products and using them every day is almost always a prerequisite of making great products. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really does use Facebook all day. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo tweeted at least 30 times just yesterday.
Damon Poeter / PCMag:
Anonymous Threatens to ‘Erase NYSE from the Internet’ — Anonymous declared “war” on the New York Stock Exchange this weekend and vowed to “erase” the NYSE from the Internet on Oct. 10 as the Occupy Wall Street protest entered its third week in New York City after a weekend that saw hundreds …
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Pastebin and PC Magazine
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
“Perplexed” by U.S. Ownership Rules, Alibaba's Ma Yellow Lights Yahoo Buying Parade — After his unusually enthusiastic declaration at a Silicon Valley event last week that “we are very, very interested” in buying the “whole” of Yahoo, you might imagine Alibaba Group co-founder and CEO Jack Ma running …
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Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Yahoo readies books for potential buyers: sources
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Wall Street Journal and Electronista
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Napster's Undoing: Company-wide layoffs coming Dec. 16 — Rhapsody's purchase of Napster from Best Buy looks more and more like a glorified funeral. Sure, Rhapsody gains a few hundred thousand new subscribers — even though it's unclear how many will actually stay around …
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Billboard.Biz and Electronista, Thanks:loyalelectron
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Whitman aims for October decision on HP's PC unit — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co's new chief executive, Meg Whitman, is aiming to make a decision on the future of the company's PC business by the end of this month. — Former CEO Leo Apotheker in August said the company was weighing whether …
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Electronista
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Who Needs Netflix? Paramount Streams Latest ‘Transformers’ Directly to Consumers — ‘A Little Toe-Dip’ in New Distribution Method for Paramount and Viacom — Paramount Pictures has quietly introduced an online streaming option for “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” taking home viewing straight …
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PC Magazine, VentureBeat, VatorNews and AllThingsD, more at Mediagazer »
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Evolving the Start menu … We'd like to share a series of blog posts on the how and why of reimagining Start. This first post talks about the history and evolution of the Start menu, and several of the problems and trends we've learned from you. We think it's always important to understand …
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia to unveil first Windows phones this quarter — (Reuters) - Nokia will unveil its first Windows-based smartphones this quarter, targeting a “clear opportunity” for an alternative to the products of big-hitters Apple and Google, the Finnish firm's chief executive said on Tuesday.
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PhoneArena, This is my next, Neowin.net, WMPoweruser, paidContent, WPCentral.com, MediaFile, VentureBeat, eWeek, Business Insider and Phone Scoop
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Price-Fixing Case Against Apple, Major Book Publishers Mushrooms — Back in August, a class action lawsuit was filed against five major book publishers and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), accusing them of colluding to jack up the price of e-books in an effort to wrest back pricing power from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).
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Techland, more at Mediagazer »
Eric Knorr / InfoWorld:
Oracle releases JavaFX 2.0, shares plans for Java 9 — Company unveils the latest Java client and server technologies at JavaOne conference — Follow @pjkrill — Oracle kicked off the JavaOne conference yesterday by shedding light on upcoming editions of Java and unveiling JavaFX 2.0 …
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Computerworld and SiliconANGLE
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla aims to add silent updating to Firefox 10 — Cites ‘update fatigue’ caused by rapid release schedule — A year after it pulled the plug on silent updates in Firefox 4, Mozilla said it will debut most of the behind-the-scenes feature by early next year.
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Brian R. Bondy, Mitchell's Blog, Computerworld, Future Releases and Web Browser
